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Where hand stamps were not available, stamps often were cancelled by marking over the stamp with pen, such as writing an "x". Pen cancellations were used in the United States into the 1880s, [6] and in a sense continue to this day, when a postal clerk notices a stamp has escaped cancellation and marks it with a ball point pen or marker.
Cancelled-to-order "stamps" of Fujairah, one of the United Arab Emirates, showing unobtrusive placement of cancellations in stamp corners A cancelled to order (also called and abbreviated CTO ) postage stamp , philatelic symbol , [ 1 ] is a stamp the issuing postal service has cancelled (marked as used), but has not traveled through the post ...
1928 King George V socked on the nose Ideally centered Austrian cancellation ca 1858. Bullseye, in philately, also called Socked on the nose (SON), refers to a cancellation of a postage stamp in which the postmark, typically a circle with the date and town name where mailed, has been applied centered on the stamp.
The FIM allows the proper facing of mail for cancellation. It also identifies the manner in which postage is paid (e.g., business reply mail or Information Based Indicia (IBI) postage) and whether that business reply mail has a barcode, typically an Intelligent Mail Barcode or the older POSTNET barcode. If the barcode is present, the mail can ...
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A used postage stamp with a pen cancel is usually worth much less than a stamp cancelled using a handstamp or machine. [5] In particular, the additional information from the handstamp is lost and the pen cancel may indicate fiscal (revenue) rather than postal use. Pen cancelling is, however, a common method of cancelling stamps used fiscally.
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1856 cover posted in New York City with three 1-cent stamps affixed. In philately, the term cover pertains to the outside of an envelope or package with an address, typically with postage stamps that have been cancelled and is a term generally used among stamp and postal history collectors. The term does not include the contents of the letter ...